Marani Brands Inc. (MRIB)

[Major Profits]

The more I discover the worse it gets. And all it took was a simple Google search to discover that Marani 2.0 seems to be doing precisely, what Marani 1.0, a failure, was doing going on 7 years ago!

National retailer announcement this week. (Starting in California) Dan says it's national retailer, other than Costco. Who will it be? Safeway? Walmart? Cvs? Meijer? I can't think of anymore. $MRIB

Well, perhaps this list from 2008 might help:

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081014/mribe.ob10ksb.html

14-Oct-2008

Annual Report

Overview

Our current business is the distribution of wine and spirit products manufactured in Armenia. In the future we may add alcohol beverage products manufactured in other countries.

The Company is a client of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. ("Southern"), the largest alcoholic beverage distributor in the United States. Through Southern, the Company's Marani Vodka is in retailers such as Ralphs, Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, and Dominicks, and in Southern California locations such as Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Spago Restaurants and Lawry's Restaurants.

The Company intends to, and is currently in negotiations with, other distributors to reach arrangements to maximize distribution of its products in the United States. The Company also is in the process of identifying appropriate distributors of Marani Vodka in Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Germany, Mexico, and parts of Asia.

Same hype, different decade!! And darn right scary too.